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Don Cheadle is superior obviously.

I can understand his feelings about the album. It's the one where he seemed to lay his emotions on the line more than his other albums. He sang about some weird and embarrassing shit. But it felt real and vulnerable. And awesome, and the music is great. And I think it helped/will help a lot of weird and embarrassed people feel less alone.

But those people get to grow up and leave a lot of their weirdness in their adolescence and early 20's. Get married, only tell the college stories they want to tell. Rivers gets a bunch of us weirdo fans pouring over his album trying to figure out what's real and how weird he was.

And then we all tell him it's the best album he's ever done, while spotlighting the flaws he took a chance to share. He's written so many melodies and verses and guitar riffs since then, but everyone always comes back to Pinkerton. Everyone wants another peek at his soul.

I mean really we don't leave our weirdness in our formative years. We just get better at hiding it from each other. Only telling our shrinks and maybe significant others what our soul really thinks. We all have our quirks and craziness and fetishes.

But that's why some of the best art comes from soul bearing. Like Tig Notaro's stand up after just finding out she had cancer. Or Emily Dickenson's fascination with death in her poems. We see sides of humanity that are hidden outside of fictional stand ins for people.

I guess as one of those fans I still feel like I'm waiting for another peak. I can't blame him if he doesn't give it to us.

Don't go price is righting his ass.

Can I be on your Podcast?

He could have maybe not described Reddit as a circle jerk while addressing the Mayor. Then again I kind of love that he did and got a great answer without a hitch.